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Following up on last week's announcement that it would soon be opening up to U.S. users,beats by dre popular music-streaming service Spotify said Wednesday that its stateside launch is happening Thursday morning. "Spotify, the award-winning digital music service loved by millions of Europeans, will become available tomorrow morning in the United States by invitation and subscription," the company said in a statement. It has promised to deliver more details about the launch monster beatsThursday at 8 a.m. ET. As CNET noted last week, eyes have been on Spotify to announce a U.S. version of its service for months, though particularly after the company began signing licensing deals with the four major record companies in the U.S. The first of those deals was struck with Sony back in January. AllThingsD notes that the U.S. version of the service Beats Graffiti Headphoneswill be invite-only at first, opening up for general use later on. There will also be multiple versions of the service: a free, ad-supported version that's time limited, along with $5 and $10 monthly plans that take away the limits and let you access music tracks on mobile devices. The U.S. launch paves the way for Spotify to integrate with a number of other services based here, notably Facebook. Earlier this month, sources told CNET that the two companies recently held discussions about integrating the music beats studio graffitiservice into Facebook, which last week noted that it has topped 750 million active users. Spotify opened up to the public in late 2008, and has attracted a following by offering free, ad-supported justbeatsmusic streaming of its catalog. The service currently touts some 13 million music tracks.